Butterfly, ode that’s first folded then flying.
Claudius, stammerer, king unbelieved.
Dent de lait, white relic, bone myth-in-waiting.
Echo, remember the voices we’ve lost.
Field guide to ghosts, point to
Graves in the margins.
Holly bright-leafed, bitter-edged, inkblot berried,
Imago, sacred inversion unfolding.
Juniper hairstreak, green flash at the treeline.
Keep: castle, promise, our memories’ stronghold.
Livia veiled, turning seasons unseen,
Marcellus, bright promise, always departing.
Naming is never a neutral affair:
Ogham, a tree-scratcher whispering silence.
Pawpaw, slow host and most patient gatekeeper,
Quiet, where gods still remember to answer.
Ritual, the only true speech of the body,
Spring azure writes summer’s scripture in air.
Thread, sacred, tensile, unbroken connection.
Unknown cocoon: moth, moon, dream, or becoming?
Virelai circling truth in a spiral. 
Witness the holiest labor of all.
Xenomemory, burden of borrowed remembrance,
Year-King descending that spring may awaken.
Zebra Swallowtail, Marcellus, red cedar roosting.